Journal articles: 'Functional organisation'

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Bunker, Deborah, Karl-Heinz Kautz, and Anne Luu Thanh Nguyen. "Role of Value Compatibility in it Adoption." Journal of Information Technology 22, no. 1 (March 2007): 69–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jit.2000092.

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Compatibility has been recognised as an important element in the adoption of IT innovations in organisations but as a concept it has been generally limited to technical or functional factors. Compatibility is also significant, however, with regard to value compatibility between the organisation, and the adopted IT innovation. We propose a framework to determine value compatibility analysing the organisation's and information system's structure, practices and culture, and explore the value compatibility of an organisation with its adopted self-service computer-based information system. A case study was conducted to determine the congruence of an organisation's value and IT value compatibility. This study found that there was a high correspondence in the organisational structure and practice dimensions; however, there were organisational culture disparities. The cultural disparities reflected the self-service acceptance and training issues experienced by the case organisation. These findings add insight into the problems experienced with value compatibility and the adoption of the information systems, and show the potential use of the proposed framework in the detection of such problems.

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Bieńkowska, Agnieszka, and Anna Zabłocka-Kluczka. "Controlling in networking organisations – the concept and assumptions." Management 18, no. 1 (May 1, 2014): 432–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/manment-2014-0032.

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Summary The article contains the characterisation of the issue and features of a networking organisation. In the context of a specific manner of cooperation among organisations-partners in the network there has been indicated a great need for coordination of activities of particular entities for the purpose of meeting the arranged objectives and controlling has been proposed as a method supporting effective networking organisation management. The article presents the evolution of the concept of controlling from strategic controlling, to partnership-based controlling towards controlling in networking organisations. The concept and tasks of controlling in networking organisations (networking controlling) have been defined. There has been presented an outline or functional, organisational and instrumental solutions.

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Moreira, Ana, Francisco Cesário, Maria José Chambel, and Filipa Castanheira. "Competences development and turnover intentions: the serial mediation effect of perceived internal employability and affective commitment." European Journal of Management Studies 25, no. 1 (November 20, 2020): 5–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejms-10-2020-001.

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Purpose This study aims to explore the serial mediation effect of perceived internal employability and affective commitment in the relationship between the organisational practices of competences development and turnover intentions. Design/methodology/approach The methodology was quantitative and is based on a survey with a sample of 313 participants, all of whom were employed in several organisations located in Portugal. Findings A significant and negative effect of organisational practices of competences development, perceived internal employability and affective commitment on turnover intentions was verified. A total serial mediation effect was also found from perceived internal employability and affective commitment in the relationship between organisational practices of competences development (i.e., training, individualised support and functional rotation) and turnover intentions. Practical implications These practices should be developed by leaders of organisations in order that employees feel that the organisation is investing in their development, which can lead to an increase in their emotional attachment towards the organisation and consequently increase their desire to stay in the organisation. Originality/value This study makes two important contributions. First, it confirms the existence of a significant and negative relationship between perceived internal employability and turnover intentions. Second, it proves the existence of a total serial mediation effect of perceived internal employability and affective commitment in the relationship between organisational practices of competences development and turnover intentions.

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Lentjušenkova, Oksana, and Inga Lapiņa. "An integrated process-based approach to intellectual capital management." Business Process Management Journal 26, no. 7 (April 23, 2020): 1833–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bpmj-03-2019-0101.

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PurposeNowadays, the aspects of the intellectual capital (IC) management have become important, valuing it as an integral part of the organisation. Researchers emphasise the strategic importance of IC management, particularly in the context of satisfying the stakeholders' interests and value creation. However, the existing studies reflect individual elements of IC management, not analysing them as a system which is a part of the organisational management system, and hence it is impossible to draw valid conclusions on the impact of IC on the organisation's performance. The aim of the paper is to describe an approach to the elaboration of the IC management strategy and its integration into the organisation's management system.Design/methodology/approachThe developed approach is based on a holistic and systemic view of the organisation, where IC management is integrated into the organisation's management . This approach is based on the structure of IC developed by Lentjušenkova and Lapina (2016). In this structure, business processes are the IC component that unites the other three ones – human capital, technologies and intangible assets. The study has used induction and deduction, as well as analytical and synthetic qualitative research methods, including logical constructive and conceptual (concept) analysis.FindingsElaborating the organisational strategy by taking into account the stakeholder interests, the organisation is able to ensure sustainable development. Using the integrated management approach, IC management is integrated into the organisation's activities and joint operational strategy. In this case, IC management becomes an integral part of the organisation's activities functioning in conjunction with the other organisation's systems, and it is integrated into all ongoing business processes.Research limitations/implicationsThe approach the authors have proposed to IC management could be adapted by small and medium-sized companies. Using it, companies do not need to create special functional units or division, because IC becomes an integral part of organisation's processes.Originality/valueIn previous studies, business processes were considered as one of the components of IC. In the study’s approach, business processes imply integration of IC into the overall organisation management system. As a framework for the proposed approach, the authors have used the Deming cycle “Plan-Do-Check-Act” that envisages dividing the development and implementation of the IC management and development strategy into four phases, with a clear allocation of tasks and a defined outcome for each individual phase. To use this approach, it is enough for organisations to conduct an analysis of processes and, depending on the strategic goals of the organisation, make additions related to managing IC.

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Thomson, Iain, and Charles FA Bryce. "Cell biology 1. Functional organisation." Biochemical Education 14, no. 2 (April 1986): 88–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0307-4412(86)90077-4.

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Bieńkowska, Agnieszka. "Controlling Effectiveness Model — empirical research results regarding the influence of controlling on organisational performance." Engineering Management in Production and Services 12, no. 3 (October 15, 2020): 28–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/emj-2020-0017.

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AbstractThe article aims to explain how controlling influences an organisation as a whole, considering the job performance of employees and managers. It describes the development and verification of the Controlling Effectiveness Model, which characterises the impact, the place of each variable and the direction of each relationship in the effort to shape organisational performance. The hypothesis was verified with the help of empirical research, which was conducted with 264 organisations operating in Poland. The survey took place in October 2019. The authors of the article used the CAWI method. Efforts had been made to ensure a diversified research sample encompassing various organisational characteristics. The exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and the sequentially mediated regression model were used to verify the hypothesis. The empirical research allowed confirming a statistically significant indirect impact of the quality of controlling on organisational performance. This relationship depends on the job performance of managers and employees. The analysis of the impact made by controlling on the job performance of employees and managers as we as the organisational performance resulted in a mediation model (the Controlling Effectiveness Model) and confirmed the effect of controlling on organisational performance through the impact on job performance of managers and employees. The article has practical implications. The organisations that decide to implement controlling should focus on the quality of this management support method. It is not enough to simply implement controlling as organisations need to ensure the correct implementation. In this context, it is also relevant to properly shape functional, organisational and instrumental controlling solutions (tailored to the characteristics of the organisation as a whole, as well as to the environmental conditions, under which the organisation operates), which determine the quality of controlling.

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SAPSED, JONATHAN D. "HOW SHOULD "KNOWLEDGE BASES" BE ORGANISED IN MULTI-TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONS?" International Journal of Innovation Management 09, no. 01 (March 2005): 75–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1363919605001174.

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This paper addresses a key interest in Keith Pavitt's later work; the organisational arrangements for co-ordinating technological knowledge. It also concurs with Pavitt's insistence on the constraints on managerial agency and his nihilistic amusement at frustrated plans. The paper considers Pavitt's conceptualisation of knowledge bases as technical disciplines and argues that there is an inconspicuous sub-level of specialised knowledge base associated with tools, products, project experience and requirements that may hamper the intents of higher-level organisation design. Two contrasting case studies are analysed of organisations attempting to manage transitions that are aimed at improving co-ordination processes. The first has moved from organisation around functional disciplines to product-based, cross-functional teams, while the second has done the reverse. The paper reviews the effects of these opposing organizational solutions on the processes of knowledge integration within the firms, the effects on communities of practice and the ways in which the systems have developed and adapted in response to the reorganisations. The paper challenges some of the simplistic prescriptions offered in the literature and provides further fuel for the debates over organisation design and the knowledge integration task.

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Hancock, Philip. "Organisational magic and the making of Christmas: On glamour, grottos and enchantment." Organization 27, no. 6 (August 21, 2019): 797–816. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508419867205.

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Drawing on qualitative research into the design, delivery and organisation of Christmas grottos, this article offers a critical understanding of the role that a functional belief in organisational magic plays in their manufacture and operation. Utilising classic anthropological research into the cultural production of magical belief systems, I attend to how such magic is produced through a network of sociomaterial practices conducive to the commercial values of the Anglo-American Christmas. I additionally draw on contemporary literature on aesthetic and atmospheric organisation in order to analyse the practical accomplishment of organisational magic as a mode of captivation and re-enchantment. This article concludes by emphasising the increasingly commercial utility of a functional belief in magic as an organisational resource, highlighting the need for further empirical scrutiny, as well as conceptual and theoretical analysis.

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Pombo, Ana, and Miguel R. Branco. "Functional organisation of the genome during interphase." Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 17, no. 5 (October 2007): 451–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2007.08.008.

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Popov, Evgenii M. "The structural-functional organisation of natural peptides." Russian Chemical Reviews 63, no. 11 (November 30, 1994): 945–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1070/rc1994v063n11abeh000128.

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Engel, Andreas K. "Functional Organisation of the Human Visual Cortex." Trends in Neurosciences 17, no. 1 (January 1994): 43–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0166-2236(94)90036-1.

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Milner, David. "Functional organisation of the human visual cortex." Neuropsychologia 32, no. 12 (December 1994): 1533–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0028-3932(94)90125-2.

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Koroleva, Natalya, and Elena Shlyakhovaya. "Developing Professional Guidelines for Administrators and Heads of Research at Research Organisations." Science Governance and Scientometrics 16, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 47–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.33873/2686-6706.2021.16-1.47-78.

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Introduction. The development and deployment of professional guidelines for research organisation administrators and heads of research at research organisations are motivated by the ever-growing productivity requirements for research and scientific and technical activity. They are also motivated by the quality requirements for the results of research and their practical application, as well as the area of activity and qualification requirements for administrators and heads of research. The purpose of this study is to elaborate on the process of drafting professional guidelines for two job types: research organisation administrator and head of research at a research organisation. Methods. We develop the guidelines for research organisation administrators and heads of research at research organisations by using a systemic approach and relying on comparative and functional analysis. Other methods employed include expert surveys, expert assessments, content analysis of expert comments and a graphical method that clearly illustrates the stages in which the proposals received from experts are processed. The theoretical methods used in this study include abstraction and specification, induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis, classification and generalisation. We also employ the simulation of professional activity while developing models of professional guidelines and drafting the professional guidelines themselves. Results and Discussion. As a result of this study, we present the methods of drafting professional guidelines for two job types: Research Organisation Administrator and Head of Research at a Research Organisation, informed by analysing the literature on the subject. In addition, we study how professional guidelines are used abroad, the development of said guidelines, analyse the critiques and suggestions received from experts and interested parties during a public discussion in the professional community, and further adjust our guidelines. Conclusion. After summarising our analysis, we conclude that the development of administrator and head of research activity at research organisations has excellent potential, as these positions are the ones that shape a given research organisation's contribution to resolving the social and economic issues faced by the national government. Our draft guidelines for administrators and heads of research are aimed at introducing an effective HR policy and competent personnel management within research organisations. The structure and content of the draft guidelines are optimal for bridging the gap between professional education and the actual labour market requirements. They fully reflect all skill, knowledge and competence requirements.

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Badjie, Gibriel, Armanu Thoyib, Djumilah Hadiwidjojo, and Ainur Rofiq. "THE SEARCH FOR NEW MEASURES IN ORGANISATIONAL COMMUNICATION: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 7, no. 1 (August 2, 2019): 469–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2019.7153.

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Purpose of the study: Communication is a central pillar in organisation, yet little genuine communication takes place in the organisation. The purpose of the paper is to craft communication model that promotes routine information availability and accessibility by simplifying the approach to organisational communication through the leadership level, functional level and operational level. Methodology: The study applied systematic literature review (SLR) or systematic research synthesis (SRS) as the approach to gather data, analyse to address the research query. The study method embraces the definition of SLR by Rousseau et al. (2008). The conditions for literature search electronically was done through multiple journal sites. The gathered published material dated between 1961-2018. Main Findings: The paper put forward three propositions to establish the argument for organisational communication. The findings show that there is no definitive agreement what constitute organisational communication as it is given many names like internal communication, employee communication, corporate communication etc. There is total lack of structural approach to organisational communication. Applications of this study: The paper refocuses organisational communication towards a three-tier approach and challenges leadership to communicate in tandem with managerial roles as purported by Mintzberg in order to give prominence to organisational communication. Novelty/Originality of this study: The paper introduces three new dimensions as measures of organisational communication with a new perspective on leadership communication, where Mintzberg’s managerial roles were used as reference for leadership communication responsibility which is missing in today’s organisation. The new measures of organisational communication are leadership level, functional and operational level.

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Verma, Jyoti, and Anamika Sinha. "Knowledge Sharing in Cross-Functional Teams and its Antecedents: Role of Mutual Trust as a Moderator." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 15, no. 03 (July 26, 2016): 1650033. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649216500337.

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Growth and success of an organisation are primarily dependent on its ability to develop, leverage, and utilise its knowledge base. This study developed a model to test the impact of antecedents of knowledge Sharing (KS) on team performance. The antecedents were classified as organisational characteristics (structure, learning culture, employee training, reward system, top management support) and individual characteristic (emotional intelligence). The study is based on data collected with the help of structured questionnaires from 582 team members working under 69 teams in 26 surveyed organisations in India. Results suggest that high emotional intelligence increases the extent of KS and hence, has positive impact on team performance among cross-functional team members. Moreover, mutual trust among team members moderates KS behaviour and team performance. Thus, findings confirm the applicability and predictive power of the proposed model. Furthermore, this model contributes to the literature of predicting KS practices in cross-functional projects.

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Missala, Tadeusz. "Design, Organisation, Planning According to Functional Safety Methodology." IFAC Proceedings Volumes 33, no. 12 (June 2000): 141–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1474-6670(17)37294-4.

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Martínez-Antonio, Agustino, Sarath Chandra Janga, and Denis Thieffry. "Functional organisation of Escherichia coli transcriptional regulatory network." Journal of Molecular Biology 381, no. 1 (August 2008): 238–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2008.05.054.

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Haak, Koen V., and Christian F. Beckmann. "Understanding brain organisation in the face of functional heterogeneity and functional multiplicity." NeuroImage 220 (October 2020): 117061. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117061.

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Cornelis, Thomas, Patrice Dubois, Jean-François Omhover, and Alain Fercoq. "Organisation Design Seen through Systematic Design." Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design 1, no. 1 (July 2019): 1553–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dsi.2019.161.

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AbstractOrganizations seeking to improve their performance, like Corporate Social Responsibility targets, face a key organisational design challenge. Designing the key components of the organization and their layout will have major impact on performances, and needs thus a robust design process. Organisation theory provides several models and methods to answer that need. Yet this design process has not been confronted to design methods literature, such as systematic design. The aim of this paper is to provide a synthesis of multiple theoretical elements coming from organization sciences, confronted with a classical engineering design model, to reveal similarities, differences and lacks of current literature on organization design. Our analysis of the available literature on organisation theory, organisation design and change management showed that this design process is close to systematic design, but we also highlighted several breaks in the design process, such as the lack of functional approach.

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Zhukovskiy, Vladimir P., Larisa A. Skvortsova, and Nina A. Zhukovskaya. "STRESS MANAGEMENT IN PEDAGOGIC ACTIVITY: BASIC ORGANISATION DIRECTIONS." Vestnik Kostroma State University. Series: Pedagogy. Psychology. Sociokinetics, no. 1 (2020): 130–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/2073-1426-2020-26-1-130-135.

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The article examines issues related to the study of the problem fi eld of the stress phenomenon in pedagogic activity, consideration of the features of its manifestation in the pedagogic environment, the possibilities of organising stress management in the functional space of pedagogic work. Topicality of the research direction outlined in the article is determined by the high social signifi cance of pedagogic activity, which represents a special socio-professional space in which the whole spectrum of social relations, the variety of communicative contacts that are realised at different levels of the organisation of the educational process and with different categories of participants in educational relations are focused, hich objectively entails the emergence of situations that can destabilise a pedagogue’s personality, modify the procedural route of pedagogic activity and lead to the emergence and development of stress. A theoretical analysis of scientifi c research is conducted, devoted to the study of the conceptual space of the stress problem, its essential characteristics, manifestations in the pedagogic environment, factors determining the occurrence of stress among pedagogues, the content of stress management in the functional coordinates of pedagogic activity. Based on the study, a system of principles is defi ned that sets the guidelines for the substantive-procedural dynamics of stress management, which determines the priority personal and organisational vectors of the anti-stress management trajectory. The contents of the leading areas of stress management in pedagogic activity are disclosed, key organisational and pedagogic tools for their implementation in the pedagogic environment are identifi ed. According to the results of the study, it was found that the organisation of systematic work on stress management in pedagogic activities implemented in an educational organisation, the active integration of pedagogues as key subjects of pedagogic work into its functional and process orbit, is an important factor in increasing the personal and professional success of a pedagogic worker, a necessary condition for the effectiveness of pedagogic activity and the development of the pedagogic environment.

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Hansen, Allan. "The purposes of performance management systems and processes: a cross-functional typology." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 41, no. 8 (May 26, 2021): 1249–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijopm-04-2021-0245.

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PurposeThis paper aims to organise, in a general typology, the different purposes of performance management systems and processes (PMSPs) that are discussed across the performance management literature in different functional areas.Design/methodology/approachThe typology is developed based on a traditional review of the performance management literature from three types of functional areas, represented by operations and production management, management accounting and human resource management.FindingsThe cross-functional typology illustrates how the different types of purposes discussed in the literature can be organised in a hierarchical structure. In this way, the basic purpose of organisational value creation for PMSPs can be decomposed into two layers of sub-purposes, the first specifying the domain and the second outlining the specific managerial use of PMSPs.Practical implicationsThe presented typology may help managers across different functional areas map the purposes of their PMSPs; this mapping will not only provide the basics for understanding a PMSP's potential value for an organisation but also serve as an important input for PMSP design.Originality/valueThe presented typology has a broader scope than existing typologies of purposes in research and, consequently, better interrelates and tracks the various types of purposes discussed across different functional areas. This contributes not only to our understanding of performance management as a cross-functional field but also to research on the use and design of PMSPs in organisations.

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Llorens-Cortes, Catherine, and Frederic A. O. Mendelsohn. "Organisation and functional role of the brain angiotensin system." Journal of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system : JRAAS 3, no. 1 (2002): S39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3317/jraas.2002.029.

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Tootell, R. B. H., A. M. Dale, N. Hadjikhani, A. K. Liu, S. Marrett, and J. D. Mendola. "Functional Organisation of Human Visual Cortex Revealed by fMRI." Perception 26, no. 1_suppl (August 1997): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/v970007.

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Until recently, comparatively little was known about the functional organisation of human visual cortex. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), in conjunction with cortical flattening techniques and psychophysically relevant visual stimulation, has greatly clarified human visual-information processing. To date, we have completed cortical surface reconstructions (flattening), coupled with a wide range of visual stimulus testing, on 28 normal human subjects. Visual activation was acquired on a 1.5 T GE MR scanner with ANMR echo-planar imaging, with the use of a custom, bilateral, quadrature surface coil covering posterior cortex. Approximately ten visual cortical areas can now be functionally localised each with unique functional and topographical properties. The most well-defined areas are: V1, V2, V3, VP, V3A, V4v, MT, SPO, and perhaps MSTd. Most of the properties in these human areas are similar to those reported in presumably homologous areas of macaque, but distinctive species differences also appear to exist, notably in V3/VP, V4v, and V3A. Human areas showing prominant motion-selectivity include V3A, MT/MSTd, SPO, and a small area near the superior sylvian fissure. Retinotopic areas include V1, V2, V3, VP, V4v, and V3A. The human cortical magnification factor appears higher towards the fovea than in macaque, but, like macaque, preferred spatial frequency tuning varies inversely with eccentricity in all retinotopic areas in which sinusoidal gratings are effective stimuli.

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Lopez, André, and Laurence Salomé. "Membrane functional organisation and dynamic of μ-opioid receptors." Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 66, no. 13 (March 20, 2009): 2093–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00018-009-0008-4.

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Collins, Stephanie. "‘The Government Should Be Ashamed’: On the Possibility of Organisations’ Emotional Duties." Political Studies 66, no. 4 (November 3, 2017): 813–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032321717739553.

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When we say that ‘the government should be ashamed’, can we be taken literally? I argue that we can: organisations have duties over their emotions. Emotions have both functional and felt components. Often, emotions’ moral value derives from their functional components: from what they cause and what causes them. In these cases, organisations can have emotional duties in the same way that they can have duties to act. However, emotions’ value partly derives from their felt components. Organisations lack feelings, but can have duties to increase the likelihood that their members have relevant emotions (with the right felt components), in virtue of and in accordance with their role in the organisation. To systematise these conclusions, I provide a taxonomy of organisations’ – and individuals’ organisationally situated – emotional duties. This taxonomy will enable scholars of electoral politics, international politics and public policy to systematically integrate emotions into the study of organisations.

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Syan, Chanan S., and Anthony S. White. "Role of European Automotive Supplier Integration in New Product Development." International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management 2, no. 3 (July 2011): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jcrmm.2011070101.

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Over the past two decades, the automotive industry has experienced major changes as a result of globalisation, changing customer requirements and environmental legislation. The supplier integration in the new product development process is a significant step in facilitating reduction in the time to market of innovations and reducing costs. The aim of this work is to assess the extent of supplier integration in automotive organisations and to identify what barriers still exist. An exploratory Europe-wide survey was conducted, and 31 usable returns from automotive organisations spread across the EU. The survey confirmed the increasing importance of supplier integration in the automotive industry; however, the practice varies from organisation to organisation. They also indicate that most automobile manufacturers are engaged in functional rather than strategic supplier integration, indicating that the supplier integration is not yet fully developed, but progress in the first tier of suppliers is becoming common.

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Székely, George. "Self-organisation or reflex theory?" Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23, no. 4 (August 2000): 549–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00403365.

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Neuromodelling is one of the techniques of modern neurosciences. The “at a distance” type of triadic synapse is probably the prevailing form of impulse transmission in many parts of the brain. If the genetically controlled cell-to-cell neuronal interconnections are abandoned, self-organisation may be the mechanism of structure formation in the brain. This assumption weakens the position of the reflex arc as the basic functional unit of nervous activities.

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Chepken, Christopher, and Suzane Nabwire. "The Possibility of One-Size-Fits-All in ICT4D Design." International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development 7, no. 1 (January 2015): 37–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijicthd.2015010103.

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This paper presents design experiences for two Non-Governmental organizations and one day-labour organisation working for the informal job seekers and employers—day-labour market. The authors present the three design architectures implemented for the organisations and show that, even when users are portrayed as similar in the way they work and what they do, their Information Management Systems (IMS) functional software requirements remain contextual up to the details. The authors argue that, although non-functional requirements may be the same for seemingly similar users, there is need to focus on the different functional information needs, including the ones that may seem insignificant. They noted that designers need to know more about their users beyond the “about us” information. The authors conclude that there exists no “one size fits all” IMS, even for seemingly similar organisations.

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Verstraeten, Joram, Gerben van Baren, and Rombout Wever. "The Risk Observatory: Developing an Aviation Safety Information Sharing Platform in Europe." Journal of Safety Studies 2, no. 2 (December 11, 2016): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jss.v2i2.10443.

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<p>In Europe the accident rate in commercial aviation has stagnated at around 40 accidents per ten million flights: forty times higher than Europe’s ambition. Currently safety management is done per organisation, focusing on an organisation’s own domain. European research institutions and the aviation sector have joined their expertise in the EU-funded Future Sky Safety Programme. One project within the programme aims to enable inter-organisation and inter-domain safety management. The four year project will deliver a tool, the Risk Observatory, which acquires safety data and translates it into actionable safety information. In the first year, more than 20 European stakeholder organisations have been consulted to express their needs for a Risk Observatory. The resulting requirements have been used to develop an early prototype: mock-ups of dashboards and a user interface. The Risk Observatory has four main elements. (1) Tracking of safety performance indicators distilled from input safety data. (2) Trend diagrams and visualisations of accident risk. Risk models will be developed to translate the input data into accident risk. The risk models also allow (3) assessment of the effects of mitigation measures. There is added value in sharing qualitative safety knowledge, such as identified hazards, therefore, (4) a searchable repository is included. The early prototype is successfully used to validate and further specify the requirements. The need for inter-organisation and inter-domain safety data dissemination was confirmed by the stakeholders. In the coming years the project will develop a fully functional prototype risk observatory, risk models and a business model.</p>

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Ehlers, Peter. "The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission: An International Organisation for the Promotion of Marine Research." International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 15, no. 4 (2000): 533–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157180800x00235.

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AbstractFor 40 years the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) has been the most important international body promoting understanding of ocean processes. Originating from a programme of UNESCO, in 1960 the IOC became a separate unit of UNESCO. The status of the IOC is regulated by Statutes which were substantially revised in 1999. These Statutes define the IOC as a part of UNESCO with functional autonomy limiting the authority of UNESCO bodies to supervise the IOC. This functional autonomy is reflected in the purposes and functions of the IOC, its relations with other international organisations and its own membership regulations. It is also reflected in its organisational structure, which consists of an Assembly, an Executive Council, a Secretariat and subsidiary bodies. The IOC is financed by UNESCO, with additional contributions allocated by Member States. The activities of IOC aim to improve our knowledge of the oceans and are increasingly directed towards the issues of responsible ocean management and sustainable development. The programmes are subdivided into ocean science projects, operational observing systems and ocean services. A special focus is training and education as well as mutual assistance in the field of ocean sciences as a contribution towards capacity building as a prerequisite for worldwide programmes. In performing its tasks the IOC enjoys partial autonomy under international law. However, its functional autonomy is considerably limited by the fact that programme and budget planning has to be approved by UNESCO, and that the funds and the personnel for the Secretariat are primarily provided by UNESCO. On the other hand it benefits from the facilities and opportunities offered from UNESCO so that the integration into this organisation and, simultaneously, the granting of a functional autonomy, constitutes a viable and economic way of promoting international co-operation with a view to improving our knowledge of the oceans.

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Kreye, Melanie E. "Relational uncertainty in service dyads." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 37, no. 3 (March 6, 2017): 363–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijopm-11-2015-0670.

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Purpose Relational uncertainty determines how relationships develop because it enables the building of trust and commitment. However, relational uncertainty has not been explored in an inter-organisational setting. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how organisations experience relational uncertainty in service dyads and how they resolve it through suitable organisational responses to increase the level of service quality. Design/methodology/approach The author applies the overall logic of organisational information-processing theory and presents empirical insights from two industrial case studies collected via semi-structured interviews and secondary data. Findings The findings suggest that relational uncertainty is caused by the partner’s unresolved organisational uncertainty, i.e. their lacking capabilities to deliver or receive (parts of) the service. Furthermore, the author found that resolving the relational uncertainty increased the functional quality while resolving the partner’s organisational uncertainty increased the technical quality of the delivered service. Originality/value The author makes two contributions: first,the author introduces relational uncertainty to the OM literature as the inability to predict and explain the actions of a partnering organisation due to a lack of knowledge about their abilities and intentions; and second, the author presents suitable organisational responses to relational uncertainty and their effect on service quality.

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Priestman, W., R. Collins, H. Vigne, S. Sridharan, L. Seamer, D. Bowen, and N. J. Sebire. "Lessons learned from a comprehensive electronic patient record procurement process—implications for healthcare organisations." BMJ Health & Care Informatics 26, no. 1 (May 2019): e000020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2019-000020.

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BackgroundThis study describes learning from procurement of a comprehensive electronic patient record (EPR/electronic health record (EHR)), system for a specialist clinical academic institution.MethodRetrospective review of procurement process in addition to evaluation of peer-reviewed literature in the field.ResultsMain lessons learned include the importance of detailed preparation of organisational requirements/specifications and organisational ‘readiness’. Early staff involvement, resulting in ownership of the selected system by the organisation was a key achievement. The scoring process used required significant resource commitment but, despite being extensive in scope, provided relatively poor distinction between suppliers, despite significant variation in supplier self-scoring. Other elements, such as demonstrations and site visits, provided superior evaluation of functional abilities, and specification requirements should be regarded as threshold evaluation.ConclusionWhile principles should be followed, the procurement process must be modified to meet the needs of the specific organisation, in terms of its clinical activities, digital maturity, existing infrastructure and budget.

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Lakhtin, M., V. Lakhtin, V. Alyoshkin, and S. Afanasyev. "Lectins of beneficial microbes: system organisation, functioning and functional superfamily." Beneficial Microbes 2, no. 2 (June 1, 2011): 155–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/bm2010.0014.

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In this review our last results and proposals with respect to general aspects of lectin studies are summarised and compared. System presence, organisation and functioning of lectins are proposed, and accents on beneficial symbiotic microbial lectins studies are presented. The proposed general principles of lectin functioning allows for a comparison of lectins with other carbohydrate-recognition systems. A new structure-functional superfamily of symbiotic microbial lectins is proposed and its main properties are described. The proposed superfamily allows for extended searches of the biological activities of any microbial member. Prospects of lectins of beneficial symbiotic microorganisms are discussed.

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Petersen, Ole H. "The functional organisation of calcium signalling in exocrine acinar cells." Journal of Korean Medical Science 15, Suppl (2000): S44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2000.15.s.s44.

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Cabelguen, Jean-Marie, Vanessa Charrier, and Alexia Mathou. "Modular functional organisation of the axial locomotor system in salamanders." Zoology 117, no. 1 (February 2014): 57–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2013.10.002.

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Turpin, N. A., A. Guével, A. Dossat, S. Durand, and F. Hug. "Recognition of muscle functional organisation in rowing by synergy identification." Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 13, sup1 (September 2010): 141–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10255842.2010.495876.

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Tosic, Dragutin, and Marija Nevenic. "Nodal region: Instrument of spatial and functional organisation of Serbia." Journal of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cviji?, SASA, no. 57 (2007): 297–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/ijgi0757297t.

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Weijs, W. A. "Functional somatotopic organisation of motoneurons supplying the rabbit masseter muscle." Journal of Comparative Neurology 364, no. 2 (January 8, 1996): 279–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19960108)364:2<279::aid-cne7>3.0.co;2-2.

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Verkhratsky, Alexei. "Patching the glia reveals the functional organisation of the brain." Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology 453, no. 3 (June 15, 2006): 411–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00424-006-0099-9.

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Baker, B. J., A. Curtis, P. Trueblood, and E. Vangsnes. "Vestibular functioning and migraine: pilot study comparing those with and without vertigo." Journal of Laryngology & Otology 127, no. 11 (October 22, 2013): 1056–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022215113002296.

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AbstractBackground:The current study compared a migrainous vertigo group with a migraine without vertigo group. It was hypothesised that those with migrainous vertigo would have more abnormal test results during a non-migrainous period than those who suffer from migraine without vertigo.Methods:Both groups, comprising 10 participants each, were tested using: the gaze stabilisation test, dynamic visual acuity test, sensory organisation test, head shake sensory organisation test and functional gait assessment.Results:Eighteen females and 2 males aged 18–53 years participated. There were no significant differences between the two groups for the dynamic visual acuity test, sensory organisation test or head shake sensory organisation test. However, mean dynamic visual acuity loss was greater in both groups than in a normal population, and the head shake sensory organisation (sway) test was well below the normal mean. The functional gait assessment showed a significant difference (p = 0.0025) between the two groups.Conclusion:Both groups showed abnormalities in vestibular functioning compared with norms, suggesting that both had some degree of vestibular dysfunction. However, vestibular dysfunction was greater in the migrainous vertigo group than in the migraine without vertigo group, as evidenced by differences in functional gait assessment.

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Swerissen, Hal. "How Should We Organise Community Health Services?" Australian Journal of Primary Health 3, no. 1 (1997): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py97002.

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This paper reviews the organisation of Victorian community health services in the context of the general direction of reform for the Australian and Victorian health systems. It notes that the emphasis has shifted to a greater focus on improving the efficiency of the relationship between needs, resources, services and outcomes. Within this context, in addition to public health measures, national reforms have advocated the creation of funding and organisational arrangements around three service functions: general care, acute care and co-ordinated care. It is argued that the organisation of community services should be driven by these functional relations, not vice versa. The efficiency of vertical and horizontal integration and the creation of community health networks is considered in relation to transaction costs, organisational scale, transition costs and distributional equity. It is concluded that community health networks offer the most efficient model for the delivery of community based public health and general, acute and co-ordinated care services.

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Söderberg, H., and H. Åberg. "Assessing socio-cultural aspects of sustainable urban water systems - the case of Hammarby Sjöstad." Water Supply 2, no. 4 (September 1, 2002): 203–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2002.0139.

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The Swedish national research programme “Sustainable Urban Water Management” aims to analyse and assess the sustainability of urban water systems (UWS) covering a range of perspectives. This paper will concentrate on development of tools to assess organisational and household related aspects, being an area with a particular need of development. Incorporated in our definition of UWS, is the condition that the functioning within the system is critical for sustainability as such and three sub-systems are distinguished: households, organisation and technical structure. A point of departure is that functional fit between the sub-systems needs to be high in order to create sustainable UWS. Organisational capacity, adaptability, motivation, opportunity and ability are used as criteria for comparison of two different technical structures. We can conclude that no straight answer to the question which system to prefer emerge - which is most often the case in reality. The two systems are high on some sub-criteria and low on others. With a combination of internal systems analysis, like this, and impact assessments, it is possible to both increase the quality of the impact assessments and manage to make analysis of organisations and households within their own frames of logic.

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McCall, John C. "Rethinking ancestors in Africa." Africa 65, no. 2 (April 1995): 256–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1161193.

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Analyses of ancestor-related practices were a crucial component of structural-functional models of social organisations in Africa. In the 1970s the theories of lineage and segmentary social organisation upon which these studies depended were called into question. Ethnographic and historical research indicated a preponderance of migratory activities and a high degree of discontinuity and reorganisation in kin relations. As a result most anthropologists turned from lineage-based functional theory to historical models of social organisation. With the waning of lineage theory, studies of ancestors in Africa became a marginal issue for most scholars of African societies. Ancestor-related practices, however, continued to be important in the lives of many African people. On the basis of data from Ohafia, Nigeria, the article suggests that the structural-functional model of social structure and the historical model of social dynamics both have parallels in indigenous representations of the ancestral past. In academic discourse these two models are taken as 'schools of thought' which pro-pound incompatible explanatory arguments. However, these apparently contradic-tory representations unite as an irreducible whole in the lived experience of the people of Ohafia. It is suggested that this indigenous paradigm of knowledge about the past provides valuable insights, not only into how we might productively theorise the social, but also for how we evaluate the contributions of our own intellectual ancestors.

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Krishnan, Saloni, Salomi S. Asaridou, Gabriel J. Cler, Harriet J. Smith, Hannah E. Willis, Máiréad P. Healy, Paul A. Thompson, Dorothy V. M. Bishop, and Kate E. Watkins. "Functional organisation for verb generation in children with developmental language disorder." NeuroImage 226 (February 2021): 117599. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117599.

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Ananko, E. A. "GeneNet: a database on structure and functional organisation of gene networks." Nucleic Acids Research 30, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 398–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/30.1.398.

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Ribeiro, Sara, Simon Ebbinghaus, and João C. Marcos. "Protein folding and quinary interactions: creating cellular organisation through functional disorder." FEBS Letters 592, no. 18 (August 24, 2018): 3040–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.13211.

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Mackman, N., J. M. Nicaud, L. Gray, and I. B. Holland. "Genetical and functional organisation of the Escherichia coli haemolysin determinant 2001." Molecular and General Genetics MGG 201, no. 2 (November 1985): 282–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00425672.

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Tsarenko, P. M. "Proposals for the ISS: «Polymorphism» Experiment. Influence of microgravity on structural-functional organisation of unicellular and coenobial green algae." Kosmìčna nauka ì tehnologìâ 6, no. 4 (July 30, 2000): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/knit2000.04.098.

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Baptista (John), João. "Institutionalisation as a Process of Interplay between Technology and Its Organisational Context of Use." Journal of Information Technology 24, no. 4 (December 2009): 305–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jit.2009.15.

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This study contributes to the IS literature with a distinct explanation of the process of institutionalisation of technology in organisations. The research analyses the role of micro-level processes of interplay in embedding an intranet in the formal functioning of an organisation and in the habits and routines of its employees. The findings identify two types of processes of interplay underpinning this process of institutionalisation. The first operates at the level of constitutive expectations and refers to mutual changes to the governance, policy and control mechanisms which foster the perception that the intranet is part of the expected formal functioning of the organisation. The second operates at the level of background expectations and refers to mutual changes that make the intranet look more familiar, functional, easier to use, fostering its embedding in routines and habits of the employees. The study aims to motivate more research on institutionalisation as a bottom-up micro process of gradual development of institutionalised behaviour.

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Paquola, Casey, Jakob Seidlitz, Oualid Benkarim, Jessica Royer, Petr Klimes, Richard A. I. Bethlehem, Sara Larivière, et al. "A multi-scale cortical wiring space links cellular architecture and functional dynamics in the human brain." PLOS Biology 18, no. 11 (November 30, 2020): e3000979. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000979.

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The vast net of fibres within and underneath the cortex is optimised to support the convergence of different levels of brain organisation. Here, we propose a novel coordinate system of the human cortex based on an advanced model of its connectivity. Our approach is inspired by seminal, but so far largely neglected models of cortico–cortical wiring established by postmortem anatomical studies and capitalises on cutting-edge in vivo neuroimaging and machine learning. The new model expands the currently prevailing diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tractography approach by incorporation of additional features of cortical microstructure and cortico–cortical proximity. Studying several datasets and different parcellation schemes, we could show that our coordinate system robustly recapitulates established sensory-limbic and anterior–posterior dimensions of brain organisation. A series of validation experiments showed that the new wiring space reflects cortical microcircuit features (including pyramidal neuron depth and glial expression) and allowed for competitive simulations of functional connectivity and dynamics based on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) and human intracranial electroencephalography (EEG) coherence. Our results advance our understanding of how cell-specific neurobiological gradients produce a hierarchical cortical wiring scheme that is concordant with increasing functional sophistication of human brain organisation. Our evaluations demonstrate the cortical wiring space bridges across scales of neural organisation and can be easily translated to single individuals.

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